TWO PROFESORS OF AFRO-PUERTO RICO BOMBA MUSIC IN NEW ENGLAND
Master Lydia Perez from Warwick, Rhode Island, Sings different "seises de Bomba" from Puerto Rico accompanied by Master Carlos Cruz Cruz, from Connecticut, Massachusetts.
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PRIAA IN HARFORD PERFORMS, -2013, WORKSHOPS FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The Founder and CEO of the Puerto Rican Institute for the Arts and Advocacy, Inc.(PRIAA), Lydia Perez will be presenting a series of workshops focused on Afro-Puerto Rico Bomba, Plena music and a mystical figures call Vejigantes in the Hartford Performs Arts Integration conference-2013 . Lydia Perez and members of Yoruba 2 will be conducted the workshop of a full day of Professional Development . This is the second year in which Caribbean Arts Program participate in the conference, the reason, the teachers love the "Caribbean Arts program from Rhode Island" and they want again the program in Connecticut. The workshop will be held on August 20 -21, 2013. The series will be sponsored by Hartford Performs of the Greater Hartford Arts Council, Inc. Photos of 2012 AND WORKSHOP FOR STUDENTS CLICK: HERE